Toti Sports Shooting Club

IPSC (International Practical Shooting Confederation) is a shooting sport based on practical shooting requiring a combination of accuracy, speed and strategy to achieve a maximum score.

A stage is laid out which includes a range of cardboard targets, steel plates that fall and moving targets. The targets can be engaged randomly or in a specific order set by the stage designer to make it more technically challenging.

You could be asked to shoot while standing but you are more often expected to run around and shoot on the move which is more challenging. Crouching, shooting around corners, lying down or shooting through apertures (windows) is also included.

A ‘Card' is a brown octagonal sheet of corrugated board with 3 zones – A, C and D. The B was the head section of the target that has since been removed to create a less human-like target so subsequently there is no B. Each card requires a minimum of two shots, A will score the highest, then C and then D. The points will vary from one division to another.

Thick metal targets spray-painted white or blue. Plates or Poppers require only one hit and must fall over.

A No-Shoot is an identical octagonal card that it is white rather than brown. Hitting this card will incur heavy penalties. Usually a No-Shoot is positioned over a brown card to reduce the size of the target area forcing the shooter to slow down or risk incurring penalties.

Moving targets have normal cards attached to a metal frame that swings, turns or runs on a cable. Sometimes they can disappear entirely forcing the shooter to rush.

The time is recorded with an electronic timing device held by the RO (range officer) who stands behind the shooter. Points are accrued and penalties deducted for procedural faults and misses, then the total is divided by the time to achieve a final score called the Hit Factor. The shooter with the highest Hit Factor will win and the runners up are awarded Stage Points according to the percentage they fired compared to the winner.

IPSC is divided into categories depending on the type of gun the shooter uses:

This division is essentially for ‘off the shelf' weapons that have very little or no modifications. Regulation with modifications is stric